COMPLIANCE in a Sentence

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The learned among them confess the absurdity of this doctrine; but the practice still continues, in compliance to the vulgar.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPLIANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
compliance
 n.  readiness to yield; happy friendly agreement
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Mrs. Dashwood WOULD sit up with her all night; and Elinor, in compliance with her mother's entreaty, went to bed.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45
2  My mother was too much afraid of her to refuse compliance with this odd request, if she had any disposition to do so.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
3  We left the room, in compliance with this request.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
4  However much astonished I might be, I was sensible that I had no right to refuse compliance with such a peremptory command.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
5  I beg you to note that I attach particular significance to compliance with this request.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 14
6  I attach particular significance to compliance.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 16
7  Love for my life urged a compliance; I stepped over the threshold to wait till the others should enter.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  The learned among them confess the absurdity of this doctrine; but the practice still continues, in compliance to the vulgar.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
9  There could be only the most proper alacrity, a most obliging compliance for public view; and smiles reined in and spirits dancing in private rapture.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
10  Your life may depend upon your compliance.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
11  urging him to show the same compliance.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
12  "I didn't actually want to stop here," he said to his companions, shamed by their compliance with his wishes.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Ten End
13  In compliance with which advice he went on this new enterprise with a vast army.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXV.
14  Moved by love of his country Fabius did as he was asked, although by his silence, and by many other signs, he gave it to be known that compliance was distasteful.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XLVII.
15  Cora set the example of compliance, with a steadiness that taught the more timid Alice the necessity of obedience.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
Example Sentence:
1  Patients should have a history of good compliance with treatment.
2  Better a frank denial than unwillig compliance.
3  The company says it is in full compliance with US labor laws.
4  Bullheaded Bill was not noted for easy compliance with the demands of others.